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[Bob Basques]

Depending on the type of data and how you want to visualize it, I've 
found MapServer to be an excellent tool.

If designed correctly inside of a larger system, it's quite capable of 
operating as the main integration piece as far as visualization of the 
data.  Adding in other services to the visualization aspect would be the 
way I would advise you to add in other data functionalities.

Without know what sort of data you are trying to distribute and/or 
visualize, it's hard to tell you much more than this.

There are a lot of pieces to a Datawarehouse for example, are you 
interested in:

    * The backend Data Mainatenance
    * The Visualization of the data
          o Either as a map, or  . .
          o As a Map Overlay
          o Or even as a Graph of some sort
    * The spatialization of data (geocoding like functions, assigning
      locations to exsiting data)
    * Spatial Query Mechanisms
    * Client Access Tools,
          o Web Browsers
          o Application Extensions
          o Static output, reports, etc.


I'm problably not getting everything, but you get the idea.

bobb




tadamcz at ae.katowice.pl wrote:

>Dear Bob, dear Paul,
>I apologize for not having decoded the DWH abbreviation I used in my posting.
>
>DWH means DataWareHouse.
>
>Yours,
>Tomash
>
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>>Tomasz,
>>
>>First off, what is "DHW" , I get a couple of hit in GOOGLE about it
>>concerning Housing and Health & Welfare. But that's it.
>>
>>What type of data is it that you are trying to render?
>>
>>bobb
>>
>>
>>
>>Tomasz Adamczewski wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>Dear Friends,
>>>
>>>My name is Tomasz Adamczewski, I am an Assistant Lecturer and a Research
>>>Faculty Member and Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Information
>>>Technology of the Karol Adamiecki Higher School of Economics in Katowice,
>>>Poland.
>>>
>>>My doctoral project, whose working title reads: "MapServer as a Tool
>>>Supporting Data Analysis in Data Warehouses. Towards New Applications of
>>>DM
>>>Solutions Open Source Geospacial Rendering Software," focuses upon the
>>>application of the software developed by your Community as an interface
>>>supporting the analysis of DWH data for such purposes as index analysis,
>>>asset management, marketing, etc. So far, the problems concerning GIS-DWH
>>>integration have been addressed by a highly limited number of scientists
>>>and
>>>IT specialists (e.g.: INCO-COPERNICUS Project No. 977091 – a
>>>cooperative
>>>project between Technical University Vienna, Czech Technical University
>>>Prague; Lumare GIS, Ltd.; Technical University of Kosice, University GH
>>>Essen, and VEGA, Ltd.,  completed in 2001, and Japanese projects). It is
>>>especially in the context of the application and implementation of Open
>>>Source tools for such purposes that very little has been published.
>>>
>>>I would be very grateful for your kind assistance in becoming acquainted
>>>with what has been done in the field by Community members; I will
>>>appreciate
>>>any published materials (pdf, electronic or other), backchannel e-mail
>>>exchange or any information concerning possible partcipation in
>>>conferences
>>>organized by Community members as well as instructions on how to
>>>contribute
>>>projects to the future Foundation.
>>>
>>>New to the group, I would like to humbly ask for initial guidance
>>>concerning
>>>the netiquette and customs of the Community.
>>>
>>>With all my best regards,
>>>
>>>Tomash
>>>(Tomasz Adamczewski)
>>>Department of Information Technology
>>>Karol Adamiecki Higher School of Economics
>>>ul. 1 MAJA 50
>>>40-287 KATOWICE
>>>POLAND
>>>tadamcz at ae.katowice.pl
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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